Yeah, totally. The recent pricing changes have just made my Copilot subscription go from great deal to awful value over night.

I've been wanting to get off MS more generally and this is good motivation. Will be playing round with OR this week.

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cedws 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Just be aware OpenRouter charges a 5.5% fee, I didn’t know until recently. I like the product, and I think the fee is fair, but if you want the absolute best pricing then go direct.

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ffsm8 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

But with open router you can always just use the latest model. If you're committed to eg Claude opus then you're better off going directly to anthropic for sure, but if not, varying other models may be fine too, depending on use case and be massively cheaper. Eg new deep seek model with same mio context window or Kimi k2.6 with 270k context window for subagents which implement

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gruez 5 hours ago | parent [-]

>but if not, varying other models may be fine too, depending on use case and be massively cheaper

Do inference providers have standardized endpoints, or at least endpoints compatible with claude code? Otherwise to pay 5.5% on all your tokens just so it's slightly easier to swap providers (ie. changing a few urls?)

	▲	swiftcoder 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Do inference providers have standardized endpoints, or at least endpoints compatible with claude code? Yep, you can plug deepseek/kimi/minimax into claude code just fine. Or run everything through another harness like opencode instead.

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AntiUSAbah 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wow thats a lot for routing traffic.

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sailfast 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And handling API tokens, and billing, and reliability, and middleware. I am not affiliated with them but it’s not “just” routing.

Apple still charges 30%. 5.5 seems pretty reasonable. /shrug I dunno.

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ac29 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Payment processing likely eats up at least 2-3% of that

	▲	arcanemachiner 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		IIRC OpenRouter charges you for the payment processing fee also. Still worth it IMO to be able to switch from Provider A to Provider B if Provider A is having a bad day.